Machinery - General
In 2016, Dale Roberts began designing a DIY mower-sprayer in his farm shop, and six years later, he has a patent and a significant equipment innovation.
Whereas farmers used to look for tractors with less than 500 hours, now with demand so high and supply constrained, the threshold is less than 5,000 hours.
A homemade trailer offers customization and cost savings.
A fellow mechanic and I used to say, “Fire is our friend” when we were stymied making repairs.
What compelled a farmer to drive 1,800 miles in dead winter atop an open-cab tractor and rage against the political machine? Family, country, and a desperate love of agriculture.
Autonomy is poised to introduce new levels of productivity on the farm — and fun.
After ransomware attacks hit two co-ops and an equipment auction site last year, John Phipps says his guess is tractors being hacked to override factory engine or emission controls are ripe for self-inflicted hacks.
Some accuse me of having a “negative personality,” and say I focus too much on my mistakes.
Smashing a weed seed to death as it passes through a combine is a technological reality fast approaching U.S. farmland.